elegant (Meaning)

Wordnet

elegant (a)

refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

Wordnet

elegant (s)

suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

Webster

elegant (a.)

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

elegant Sentence Examples

  1. The ballerina's movements were characterized by an elegant grace.
  2. She wore an elegant gown that accentuated her slender figure.
  3. The elegant decor of the room created a sense of sophistication.
  4. The pianist's playing was both elegant and expressive.
  5. The host's elegant manners put the guests at ease.
  6. The garden was designed with an elegant layout of flowers and shrubs.
  7. The antique furniture added an elegant touch to the living room.
  8. The chef's presentation of the dish was elegant and visually appealing.
  9. The architecture of the building was elegant and timeless.
  10. The elegant design of the jewelry caught the eye of the admirer.

FAQs About the word elegant

refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style, suggesting taste, ease, and wealth, displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or executio

fine,graceful, handsome, fashionable, quiet, majestic, proud, superb, glorious, stately

unstylish, dowdy, coarse, garish, flashy, glitzy, crude, garish, grotesque, unstylish

The ballerina's movements were characterized by an elegant grace.

She wore an elegant gown that accentuated her slender figure.

The elegant decor of the room created a sense of sophistication.

The pianist's playing was both elegant and expressive.